Film
The Skinny magazine film guide. We bring you the latest new releases, UK film festivals, previews, reviews, exclusive interviews with film directors and actors, opinion pieces and film features.
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New ReleasesCreed II
Creed II is a winner, but it can't match the succession of devastating blows delivered by Ryan Coogler’s original film Read more »| 29 Nov 2018 -
New Releases
Disobedience
Chilean director Sebastián Lelio's follow-up to A Fantastic Woman is the story of same-sex love within the Orthodox Jewish community, but it's a drab affair lacking passion and colour Read more »| 28 Nov 2018 -
New ReleasesRoma
Alfonso Cuarón's Roma, the Mexican director's most most personal work, is more impressive as a feat of crowd control than as a piece of visual storytelling or as a character study Read more »| 28 Nov 2018 -
New ReleasesAnna and the Apocalypse
Anna and the Apocalypse is rough around the edges, but this endearing Scottish Christmas zombie musical has some toe-tapping tunes and characters you care about Read more »| 27 Nov 2018 -
Tv RadioThe best films and TV to stream this Christmas
Christmas; a time for giving, a time for laughing, a time for sharing, a time for sitting around in your pants watching all the movies and TV shows you couldn't make time for in the last year Read more »| 26 Nov 2018 -
FestivalsAesthetica Short Film Festival: 2018 Round-up
We look back at the eighth edition of Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York. We found several sparkling masterclass sessions with filmmakers like Mark Cousins and Alice Lowe, but the great short films proved more elusive Read more »| 23 Nov 2018
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New Releases
The Image Book
Veteran French auteur Jean-Luc Godard bewilders and delights with dizzying essay film The Image Book Read more »| 23 Nov 2018 -
Festivals
The Matrix takes over the Arches at GFF 2019
Glasgow Film Festival announces the first programme details for its 2019 edition, including special screenings of The Matrix and Alien, and a focus on Belgian cinema Read more »| 20 Nov 2018 -
Opinion
Suspiria welcomes the Season of the Witch
We’ve had Vampire infestations and zombie armies: with the release of Luca Guadagnino’s remake of Suspiria, are we about to get a coven of witches? Read more »| 16 Nov 2018 -
New Releases
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
This sequel to the Harry Potter prequel is a tad heavy-handed and its racial politics don’t always hold up, but it’s more tonally assured than its predecessor and exploits the Potter nostalgia fruitfully Read more »| 16 Nov 2018 -
News
New Nicolas Cage film to premiere at Glasgow’s Cage-a-Rama
Europe’s longest-running Nicolas Cage film festival is back – for, erm, its second year – and it's bringing special guests, Nic Cage-related events and the UK premiere of the legendary actor's latest film, Between Worlds Read more »| 14 Nov 2018 -
News
Alfonso Cuarón's Roma gets a stunning first trailer
The new film from the director of Children of Men and Gravity is a beautiful widescreen black-and-white drama set in Mexico City in the early 1970s Read more »| 13 Nov 2018 -
New Releases
Suspiria
Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of Dario Argento’s classic horror Suspiria is languorous and muted, and fails to find its true rhythm Read more »| 13 Nov 2018 -
New Releases
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Coens' cruel anthology western begins with a blistering energy, but becomes more ponderous with each chapter Read more »| 10 Nov 2018 -
Interviews
Meet stop-motion animator Lesley-Anne Rose
As Channel 4's late-night short film series Random Acts returns, we speak to Lesley-Anne Rose, one of this year's Random Act filmmakers, about her pleasingly surreal stop-motion offering Oxidane Read more »| 09 Nov 2018